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Got to love politics! The Tax cut which in my opinion is very unwise due to the fact we still do not know the effects of the current tax changes from last year. Now we want to cut revenues even further without knowing what the next year will bring is very short sighted and political year folly. Without a doubt not good public policy.

You said it yourself.....you CHOOSE to send your child to a religious school. If all of us could opt out of paying whatever tax we didn't like, there probably wouldn't be much tax money left. I know some of the poster cannot make the connection so let me point this out. Less tax revenue means less or none of the following.....police, fire departments, jails, campgrounds, state land to hunt and fish on, a road system etc.....you get the idea.
Even the Federal Preamble to the U.S. Constitution speaks to government and the responsibilities there of.....how do you think you pay for things like ensuring domestic tranquility or promoting the general welfare?
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

From the above M-Live article
"While I looked favorably upon the original intent of charter schools, I am increasingly concerned that after two decades and substantial growth, the charter school idea has strayed considerably from its original vision. A growing body of research as well as state and federal evaluations conducted by independent researchers continue to find that charter schools are not achieving the goals that were once envisioned for them.”
So the group at CMU can put their pom-poms away. It sure would be nice to have them tell the truth......Charters are actually not performing as well as public schools.....go figure

Charters do no better than public schools, according to this MLive article previously this year.
So much for using data Mr. Snyder
http://www.mlive.com/education/index.ssf/2012/03/in_michigan_charters_results_n.html
Now make sure the MLive police remove this and any post that accurately points to differences than those coming from the gas bags quoted in this article

Feel free to move to the mountains of Pakistan. I here there is no taxes paid by citizens there along with no form of government, sounds like just the place for you.
Every post you make advocates this type of environment, feel free to move to the place you seem to think is better than here obviously.

This is clearly a dishonest move. Switching party's is not dishonest, the way it was done was incredibly dishonest.
Interesting that he was approached by Bolger a few weeks ago wasn't it. To make this switch at the 11th hour is incredibly disingenuous to the Democrats who have supported Roy through many elections. No question this move lacks any level of character and only a move that smacks of politics for future elections.
Sad thing is that if you do not see this as being dishonest regardless of party, it says a lot about where your values and morals are at today in American Society and right here in SW Michigan.
Party politics aside, this move lacked any positive qualities.

C1-anybody who hangs around on Mlive knows how you distort people posts, as once again you prove by a partial post of mine you cut and paste to back up your position.
Everybody who is on Mlive enough really knows who has the credibility problem, that would be you!
Fact-Snyder said the tax shift from business to individuals would lead to higher tax revenues.
Fact by this article and the economist, that is not happening. Can't distort that one!

What a surprise! The tax cuts to business's didn't end up providing more revenue like the liars in office and the legislature said it would.
Even more taxes on individuals coming!
I can't believe all the new taxes on Michigan citizens and the right and the Tea Party stand mute.
I guess this demonstrates their true colors.....pawns of the Republican Party!

I love it when I see a post like this! It demonstrates how stupid some in the country are. Please prove the Marxist comment with facts..I know I will be waiting a long long time for your facts. Why, because they don't exist.

Please work on your comprehension skills. The article clearly points out that it is not voter fraud. Remember this is coming from Republicans who are in charge of the Secretary of State office(T.L.Land) unless of course you decide to call a fellow Republican a liar.

I have had the opportunity to mentor a virtual classroom at the high school level for two years for one hour a day. This is what I can tell you about virtual learning.
Of the 20 seats we had in this virtual lab, I would say that of those 20, only two of the students were self motivated to take the course without serious prodding from me. Near the end of the first year that I mentored the class I had to put serious consequences in place just to get kids passing by the end of the semester. I am not talking a group of low socio-economic's either.
The 2nd and last year I ran the mentor lab for the hour I instituted consequences throughout the semester to keep the kids on track.
What I am getting at is students by themselves for the most part were not self motivated enough to be successful with online learning as it was done a few years ago through Michigan Virtual High School.
I know the mistake that is being made by allowing more virtual learning and I would not want my child to be the one experimented on. There will be some success stories without a doubt, but I think when we look back on this decision we will see it was more about giving public money to a private entity then actually improving education over all. We shall see but in my opinion this was a big mistake for the reasons I have witnessed.

No fears Tim......the House Republicans will have nothing to do with a full replacement of revenue for the PBT.
The Democrats will be able to maintain this message into November.
I also see where the Governor supports ANOTHER TAX INCREASE ON CITIZENS....in the form of internet tax.
Just look at all the Tax increases on citizens over the last two years....makes Granholm look like a fiscal conservative....however I am sure our tea party folk will remain mute over the tax increases.

Bolger the clown prince of the posse!
The squeeze certainly is not because you decided with the rest of the Republican cronies decided to cut funding to what it was 6 years ago, although inflation even though meager the last decade is still inflation!
How's those jobs coming by the way? I heard good news from Hostess today......whoohoo more job layoffs! Shouldn't those tax cuts be kicking Michigan into high gear by now?
Vote straight ticket D this fall if you really care about kids.

Nice politically driven speech by Weinstein. Clear talking points of the far right.
BTW-we have not had a clear energy policy through multiple presidents both Democrat and Republican.
To be more independent we need to move away from fossil fuels, yet Weinstein speaks of none of that.
Otherwise political hack of the right!

A valid point would be that any one person, business or whatever that cuts their income to levels close to or greater than what they were 10 years yet have costs of today wouldn't survive long. That is exactly what the Republican Leadership in Lansing has passed into law last year and it appears this year with no increase in per pupil funding this year and next year. Very few would survive that economic situation.
A few days ago an article was written about "Do Republicans want to kill public schools". I think you have your answer.
All I know personally is that my district for the 4th straight year will be asking for concession from that staff, cutting teachers district wide and still have a significant funding issues. I also know that my class sizes at the high school level will be increasing from the upper 20's per class to the mid-30's.
So when Republicans talk about seeking quality education.....please tell them the truth......they are full of horse............!

I'm glad you are doing your part and are willing to have your PERSONAL tax load increase for the love of business in Michigan.
This will be fun to hear the complaints next tax season when Michigan residents finally taste these tax shifts for the first time when they fill out their tax returns next year.
I look forward to hearing you praise the tax increase you will feel next tax season